Otto Zitko is a contemporary abstract painter. Otto Zitko was born in Linz, Austria in the year 1959. Zitko attended the University of the Applied Arts located in Vienna, Austria.
In this clip we view some works by Otto Zitko. These begin at the 28 second mark of the clip.
The artist is now based out of Vienna, Austria.
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Zitko works in oils, acrylics, charcoal, and mixed media.
The artist reminds of Cy Twombly, another artist famous for his scribbles! James Nares, the British artist renown for his use of line, also comes to mind when viewing the work of Otto Zitko.
Zenita Komad is a contemporary artist from Austria working in a modern style. Zenita Komad was born in Austria in the year 1980. Komad is a painter and photographer.
The artist often adds text or a form of dimensionality to her artwork.
Komad attended the Academy of Fine Art and the University of Applied Art located in Austria.
The artist is based out of Vienna, Austria.
The artist is part of collections in Europe, South Korea, and the United States.
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Below we visit a gallery show from 2008 featuring the work of Zenita Komad. Her installations are very large and playful and remind me of American artist Jeff Koons:
Maria Lassnig was an Austrian artist renown for her self portraits. Maria Lassnig was born in Kappel am Krappfeld, Austria in the year 1919. Lassnig worked as a painter and also a filmmaker.
Lassnig attended the Academy of Art located in Vienna, Austria. She also studied later at the School of Visual Arts located in New York City.
She began as an abstract expressionist painter, as that was one of the most popular art movements when her career began.
Below we visit a retrospective that took place for the Lassnig in New York City:
Maria Lassnig passed away earlier this year in May at the age of 94 years old.
Lassnig is part of many prominent collections including the Museum of Modern Art located in New York City.
Price range information: Lassnig worked in watercolor, acrylics, oils, and produced many etchings and screenprints. Prints can be found between $4,000 and 10,000. Originals can bring as much as $300,000.
Lassnig had a very unique idea of painting the figure and especially self portraits. What I enjoy most about Lassnig to explore and conquer different ideas and techniques of painting. I wondered if Georgia O’Keefe ever painted any self portraits in such a unique manner.
Wolfgang Paalen was born in Vienna, Austria in 1905. Paalen was associated with both the abstract expressionist and Surrealist movements.
His father was an inventor and his mother a leading actress. The family always lived in a beautiful living space including a castle whilst the family lived in Germany.
Paalen studied with painter Fernand Leger.
Paalen married an artist and author named Alice Rahon. She will be the next entry! Rahon was a minimalist and modernist painter.
The artist was inspired to move to Mexico by the famous artist Frida Kahlo. At this stage of his life the artist was working in the Surrealist style. The artist also painted in San Francisco, California. He would later lose his friendship with Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera over their political beliefs.
The artist worked with ink and oils as his favorite mediums.
In this clip we view an abstract work by Paalen. The close ups are wonderful to see how much color the artist uses:
Wolfgang Paalen committed suicide in 1959 at the age of 54 years old.
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I enjoy his type of Surrealism. Paalen created very unique shapes and gives the viewer a feeling of being in outer space, or at least a world far different from earth.
Paul T. Frankl was born in Vienna, Austria in the year 1886. Frankl was a furniture designer whose most famous series was his skyscraper series, the first picture in the gallery is a great example of a work in this series. Each desk was made to look like a very large urban building. This design was in the mid 1920s, Paul Frankl was one of the first Modernist Interior Designers.
Frankl arrived in the United States in 1914.
In this clip a discussion on cork as part of shoes and furniture from Daniella on Design. The section featuring Paul Frankl begins at around 1:55 into the clip:
In this clip a brief look at a desk produced by Paul T. Frankl:
His family made their fortune in real estate.
For his collegiate education Frankl studied architecture at the Berlin Polytechnic located in Berlin, Germany.
At his peak the artist ran two very successful home furnishings stores and galleries in New York City and Los Angeles, California.
Frankl was part of the teaching faculty at the Chouinard Institute located in Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California.
Paul Frankl passed away in 1958 at the age of 71 years of age.
Frankl had a daughter that went on to a successful writing career.
Price range information: Most pieces and sets priced between $3,000 to $20,000.
What an innovative artist who helped change the way people think about furniture, Frankl made it a work of art!
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